Zeno of Citium Quotes
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Happiness is a good flow of life.
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Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.
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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
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All the good are friends of one another.
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No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
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The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
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